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China Angry As Lai Stops at U.S.’s Hawaii, Guam in First Trip Abroad

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Taiwan President Lai Ching-te began his first official overseas trip to the country's Pacific Island allies with a stopover in Hawaii. Why have his U.S. stops garnered an angry reaction from China, and will Beijing use them as an excuse to conduct joint-force military exercises around Taiwan? Our guests are: Tony Hu - Former U.S. Department of Defense Senior Director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia Ronan Fu - Academia Sinica Institute of Political Science Assistant Research Fellow